Five (or so) links per letter. Music, sound, and other noise. Welcome to Edition 146.
Happy New Year, may it be resolute.
Listening List 2022
For the last 20 years I've put together a year-end playlist. These are not (necessarily) songs from this year. But songs that meant something to me, this year. What originally started as a gift for my dad, uncle, and brother on a burnt Staples CD-r later moved to thumb drives and is now deeply entrenched in the streaming era, sent out via email, and email newsletter, since 2015.
As always, one of my favorite parts of the holiday season is getting to sit down and go through a year's worth of music -- some old, some new -- and sift and sort and put a mix together.
Here is the 2022 mix.
This year, in addition to Spotify (yeah, I know), I’m using a script written by the good old folks at Hype Machine to scrape BandCamp links from the playlist album data. The script will only do 100 songs at a time, and my list is a (whopping, damn) 195 songs, so here are those links:
https://hypem.com/merch-table/3eOtSSU3zkJjc6z5RMKG9i
https://hypem.com/merch-table/1OLrI06qTIb36Ow4JmVHTY
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O Superman hit me over the head as a senior in college in a ‘voices of the avant-garde’ English seminar. It was 2002, I was using Cakewalk Sonar, and I made a very cringey mashup of ‘O Superman’, a live recorded stream of TV News droning on about terrorism, and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. LOL. This ‘forgotten’ remix CD comes courtesy of the Elektron user forum. My track is not featured on it ;)
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What The Hell Is Float House In Everyone's Spotify Wrapped? / Here’s what the “escape room” genre on your Spotify Unwrapped encompasses.
on Spotify and its weird-ass neologistic genres.
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Mega Collection of 1990s Sample CDs for your Downloading Pleasure
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Really enjoyable approach to breakbeat mangling via audio manipulation.
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PicoSynth
https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picosynth
Cute Overload.
Thanks for reading everyone. Submissions, feedback, and hellos all welcome. It’s nice to know you’re out there.
-Matt